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Sunday, January 25, 2009

The Convict's Opera tour

The Convict's Opera tour

Max Stafford-Clark directs this piece which tells the story of prisoners staging John Gay's The Beggar's Opera in 1812 Britain.



Like a recidivist criminal, that fine director Max Stafford-Clark is returning to the scene of the crime. Twenty years ago he scored one of his biggest hits with a double-bill of The Recruiting Officer and Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Our Country’s Good, which told the story of a group of British convicts staging Farquhar’s great Restoration comedy in the early days of the penal colony in Australia.

In this new piece, written and adapted by Stephen Jeffreys, Stafford-Clark directs the story of a group of British prisoners staging John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera (1728) during the long transportation voyage from the London docks to Australia.


Nothing like a bit of culture to start a Sunday morning.
jailhouselawyer at 9:35 AM

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John Hirst Hull, East Yorkshire, GB "Who is John Hirst?" the Sun online questioned the day after the UK lost its appeal to the Grand Chamber of the ECtHR in the prisoners votes case. The profile was not very informative nor flattering. But, I don't like the Sun either so we are quits. I was born, at 2 I was put into Dr Barnardo's Homes. What they called care, we refer to it as physical and sexual abuse. I drifted into crime, and spent 35 years in prison. In spite of the system, I reformed and rehabilitated myself with the support of some within and outside of the system. I was transformed from a law breaker into a law-maker. I am firmly committed to prisoners rights, and am a campaigner for penal reform. I live in a 3 bedroom terrace house within a cul-de-sac, and have a dog as a companion. My Latvian friend keeps invading my space and telling me I need a wife. She does keep the house clean and tidy, but loves my dog and calls him her boyfriend... Recently, Viking FM have asked for advice and reports for the news on radio on Criminal Justice issues. In addition, I used to write regularly for Inside Time the National newspaper for prisoners.
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